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The 1972 concert film Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii, back in cinemas this week, would change the way many thought of Pompeii.
A 16th-century mural has been discovered in Venice, a rare surviving example of decoration that once adorned many of the city's facades.
While inspecting a sumptuous villa in Rome, an electrician stumbled across long lost works by the Baroque painter Carlo Maratta.
The band’s 1972 crowd-free concert movie captures their trippy transition from psych trailblazers to prog superstars ...
The recent launch of a website dedicated to frescoes in a Maine meeting house has created a new surge of interest in the ...
As an archaeologist, I understand that the darkened layer left when fire sweeps through a city draws a sharp line in time ...
Likely the artist’s final work, this 16th-century painting is a vast, darkly burnished depiction of Christ’s death that is ...
BFI’s collection of Victorian 68mm film – the “IMAX of their day” – afforded protected status as part of a collection of 300 titles that will be added to UNESCO’s register.
Created in the Grotesque style, the 16th-century images—revealed by renovations at a lodge in England—mimic historic textile ...
And as a simple – albeit admittedly pretentious – document of a boundary-pushing band finding focus and fusion after a period ...
Hundreds of once-missing artifacts, hunted down over decades by a special Italian police unit, have been unveiled for the first time in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. In its ...